How To..., Do It Yourself (DIY) and a lot of photography information.By Rui M. Leal

Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Best Collection of Dusty Books & Old Movies

Let me take you into a Voyage...

Hey!! wait a minute where did I heard this before??...

Today I'm not going to talk nor about Star Trek nor Star Wars and not even on how to make those special little tiny effects or to create a magic photo bubble with your fingers and produce a BIGGER light to get you a nice picture.

Instead I decided to look around the internet archives and bring you something different, maybe something you have never heard or seen before but that has to do with Photography.

Internet is full of surprises and, if you read this post all the way down, you'll see what I mean.

I could simple start by... Once upon a time...Well if you are reading this far is a good thing, first because my headline caught your attention and you start to become curious and second you sure like photography like myself.

There is nothing fancy about this nor mysterious just some old dusted tapes and books I manage to find while googleing.

You will have the opportunity to see and download movies from the late 40's and books for the late 30's and guess what? All of them about photography or Photography related.

Cool, No!?

So without further delays let's get this party started.

(BUG reported: all videos start automatically and tried to fix the code but they keep on starting, please take a moment to go the page all the way down and stop them manually before continuing). Sorry for the inconvenience and hope I could fix this soon.

First one is a short movie about Photography and how careers were developed.

And in this one I found a lot of good things that, even in nowadays people continue to make the mistake of not reading the "Instructions Book". So I leave you with this great old movie full of advises and tips...

Your Movie Camera and How to Use It (1948)This movie is part of the collection:Prelinger ArchivesProducer: Paul BurnfordAudio/Visual: Sd, B&WCreative Commons license: Public DomainDownload 46Mb 512Kb MPEG4 Here.Download HiRes MPEG 297Mb Here.

Hope you have enjoyed this time travel through some of the old movies and books that taught and show to the masses Photography and Cinematography of those days and that I brought you here today as a Best compilation of them all.